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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #946
Peak in subgenre #63
Author
Vagenda
Rights
(c) 1999 Vagenda
Uploaded
February 15, 2016
Track Files
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MP3 8.2 MB • 160 kbps • 7:09
Story behind the song
*WARNING*
If you would rather enjoy this piece of art and have it come to mean something truly unique to you, do not read the backstory. Just as the band “Aerosmith” once criticized the music video industry of robbing fans from having their own visions of imagery associated to a song and supplanting it with some “official” footage, so too can knowing a songs backstory potentially come to rob it of having some special place and meaning for you.
Or both can exist. It’s all really subjective. Proceed with understanding.
Thank you,
V
The Official Backstory
This is a song about Jade.
Part one of this song is about the connection I felt between us spiritually, and my faith in it.
Part two is about feeling factors come between us in the run of our lives.
Part three is about loss.
Special thanks to James Bechrakis from Winnipeg, Alberta for having the voice the poem in Part 3 required to work well in this piece.
Lyrics
Restless Afternoon
(c) 1999 Vagenda
Composed at age 22
Recorded January 17, 2016
*this song is in three sections. Section A is the primary section. Section B is a short transitional lament. Section C is a drastically re-harmonized restatement
Restless Afternoon (Section A)
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It's just a restless afternoon
And to look at me you'd swear I'm alone in this room.
But there's a bittersweet part of you
Here inside me
It used to be a sweet love in bloom
With this ribbon tying my soul to you
And its commitment echoes through
Says infinity
But I think I see the end
There's nothing
You don't know
Alright
Earth Raven
Door's open
...
I think I'm going to dust off my broom
And fight for some distraction from your presence inside
I used to love that special bond we shared
Now it's torture
It used to be a sweet love in bloom
With this ribbon tying my soul to you
And its commitment echoes through
Says infinity
But I think I see the end
There's nothing
You don't know
Alright
Earth Raven
Door's open
Take Flight
Don't leave your heart divided
Be solid and decided
There's only one
There's only one
There's only one
Earth Raven
Be free.
It used to be a sweet love in bloom
With this ribbon tying my soul to you
And its commitment echoes through
Says infinity
But I think I see the end
Restless Afternoon (Section C)
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It's just a restless afternoon
I've got my mind on Saskatoon
And I'll be gone soon
It's just a restless afternoon
I've got my mind on Saskatoon
And I'll be gone soon
It's just a restless afternoon
I've got my mind on Saskatoon
And I'll be gone soon
It's just a restless afternoon
I've got my mind on Saskatoon
And I'll be gone soon
It's not so much that time heals a broken heart
After a few passed years, where two ex-lovers can finally be leisurely and chat a light meaningless chat over coffee with light-hearted smiles that comfortably imply nothing nor show any signs of that purposeful intense depth that would have been in those lips a few years before.
It's not so much that time heals a broken heart
As much as it is that a heart broken if given enough time, can bleed itself so dry you have to laugh at your naivety for even believing in love, question if the warmth was even real, and to strengthen what of you is left, assume it hadn't, then blame the notions and failure on your youth…
It's not so much that time heals a broken heart
As much that time simply leaves you without one
